I mean Punk basically assaulted the elite. (Ace Steel bit Omega!) Why would they want to work with the guy? They just signed huge money deals to stay there. There's not really any incentive to work with a guy who assaulted you and called you out.
I think it's a nice sentiment to say Tony should just put his foot down or whatever, but what happens when the Bucks/Kenny say no, we dont want to work with Punk? (Fwiw, there was recent reporting Kenny was probably willing to work with Punk in the near future, but put that aside). You want to fire guys because they dont want to work with someone who assaulted them? Seems like a pretty easy lawsuit to me. (Either that, or dont sign them and hand them and Hangman to WWE on a silver platter, which considering what happened when Cody went over, seems unwise)
I'm sorry but if 4 or 5 guys aggressively show up at a door (whether they banged it or not), with 1 guy and 1 lady in the room (Steel showed up later), you can't claim you did nothing wrong and that somebody assaulted you when the confrontation heats up.
Well Meltzer can - Meltzer has an amazing way with logic.
Me - Hey Dave, EVP's in real life can't aggressively come and confront people in real work settings without real consequences to their job.
Dave - Its wrestling, its different, you can't compare it to the real world. Things get handled differently.
Me - OK, so then the consequences of the confrontation should be expected and administered differently since wrestling is different right?
Dave - No, no, people can come aggressively confront you (and not be in the wrong), but if somebody defends themself with fists they are in the wrong. Furthermore, Punk invited them down earlier.
Me - So Dave, if I told my senior executive team to **** off and come on down to my office, and 3 or 4 showed up and there was a fight or a massive argument, HR would all be totally cool with the senior exec team
Dave - No, wrestling is different.
It was a fight - a fight that happened for two reasons.
#1) Punk egregiously went off at the PC that night (which he could have been rightly fired for). #1 doesn't happen then #2 doesn't happen. (Of course there is stuff that happened before that between a bunch of immature and soft people (including Punk) that caused #1 because TK could not reign it in)
#2) Bucks/Elite and a few others showed up at Punk's door - they were largely responsible for that fight happening. And in their roles they needed to know better.
Punk could have certainly been fired for #1 and told to never come back. Good luck with #2, in a court of law that is not judged by Dave Meltzer.
Plus, fights happen in wrestling all the time. And people make up. The fact that the Elite refuse to do so, despite their role in the fight, shows they are just as unprofessional here.
Not as fireable though, because Punk escalated things.
